mbillips:CapeFearCadaver: You know what, Coach K is an awesome man. There. I said it.

He's a very good basketball coach, but other than that, he's a bully and a prick. I've really hated him ever since I read this story 23 years ago.

I used to work for the arborist company that took care of his landscaping, he just always treated me with the utmost respect and kindness. We even chatted about philosophy once. Then again, I never did anything on get on a bad side.... so... meh.

I remember watching a UK game last year after Coach K won his 900th victory. Dicky V. was announcing the UK game. Almost every UK possession Dick was talking about how great Coach K is, how great Duke is, and anything but the game that was being played. It got to the point where he was waxing about things that are around 900 and then say "exactly like the number of wins Coach K has" all farking game.

Girion47:I remember watching a UK game last year after Coach K won his 900th victory. Dicky V. was announcing the UK game. Almost every UK possession Dick was talking about how great Coach K is, how great Duke is, and anything but the game that was being played. It got to the point where he was waxing about things that are around 900 and then say "exactly like the number of wins Coach K has" all farking game.

I remember that game, it wasn't much of a game, and sure the 900 wins thing is pretty good, and maybe you mention it once or twice, but I was starting to get annoyed, and I like Dicky V.

Yeah, #1 for me, a MD boy, was when the officials cheated for Duke to beat MD in the NCAA tourney back in '01. They were blatantly calling fouls against MD that weren't fouls, and not calling fouls against Duke.

Justice was served this season, when a ragtag MD team spanked Duke twice for their two final appearances in the ACC.

One of my favorite dook rants comes from the otherwise execrable National Review:

"I hate Duke basketball. And I hate Mike Krzyzewski.

This is not your garden-variety hatred, something you utter with the gravity of a helium balloon. This is a hatred pure of heart, uncorrupted by the sophistries of reason and reasonableness. Its taproot is deep within my soul, in a place where only those ancient bestial emotions lurk. Whenever I see Krzyzewski stomping up and down the Duke bench - face contorted in rage, twisted by arrogance, those glirine eyes darting obsessively to and fro as he gesticulates with a pomposity only he can muster - a red glaze comes over my vision, an animalistic rage wells from my primal id. I imagine myself endowed with psychic powers: If I concentrate hard enough perhaps he will falter, his team suffer some terrible reversal of fortunes, or, at the very least, that sneer will be wiped from his face for just a moment."

Girion47:I remember watching a UK game last year after Coach K won his 900th victory. Dicky V. was announcing the UK game. Almost every UK possession Dick was talking about how great Coach K is, how great Duke is, and anything but the game that was being played. It got to the point where he was waxing about things that are around 900 and then say "exactly like the number of wins Coach K has" all farking game.

Dickie V fellates whoever is good. Back in the pre-Coach K days, Dickie V couldn't be bothered to notice Duke. He was all about UNC back then.

The flopping is the biggest for me. It's a near-universal agreement in the ACC and even in other conferences that Duke flops more than most. I joke with my wife that Coach K must make them take acting 101 just to improve their flopping skills.